The Washington critic., 1887-01-26

Woman Suffrage. The cause lacks
political vitality. Could the
great question involved become
direct issue before the pco'
pie and the election of Senators and
Representatives be made to turn on this
issue the result would he different. As
II Is no one is sent to Congress ms
Woman Suifragist. They all come I'M
instructed as to the matter except by
their own prejudiccs, and they so vote.
Hence the need OF wider, continued,
more aggressive agitation, not upon
the floors of the Capitol, but at the
polling places of the people where Con.
gressmen are chosen and In the halls Of
State Legislatures where Senators are
made. What is needed is not the in.
effective memorial of an association
laid before the President of the Senate,
but the voice of public sentiment de.
manding what the association asks, and
wrought up to the pitch of enforcing
lis demands by It's votes Here is the
true field of labor, and Miss Stanton
should not he discouraged as long as n
shGaf remains TO garner.
1r SEEMS to he generally agreed by
those who were there and took a calm
and candid view of the situation, that
the foray made upon the banquet table
at the Chinese Minister ball last night
exceeded in yoracity and indeceucy
any thing Of the kind that ever Occurrc |
In Washington before The smile Of
hogs at a trough, coarse ~ 1t IL in Ian
guagc and suggest N. Is said TO lit the
occasion mtrc approximately than any
other. Why II is that grown men,
presumed TO be gentlemen, should so
dCmean themselves MS the guests OF u
foreign diplomat and respond TO his
hospitality like so many raycnous and
balf.starvcd animals, is only to be
accounted for on one theory. The
presumption Of their being gentlemen
must be mistake.
in favor of increasing the salaries OF
Cabinet officers. That public officials
occupy ing such high and responsible
positions should receive no more than
The salary of New York Police Jus.
ticc, does look Il little queer. "Our
country is too big says the GiHpht,
"and too prosperous TO treat its lead
ing Iublic officials meanly or shabbily,
and out of the surplus that is bothcring
us by its magnitude we can well afford
to set aside few thousands of dollars
for the decent remuneration of the
heads Of the great Federal Depart.
mcnts.
THE war that was so imminent In
Europe day before yesterday is not SO
imminent as 1t was. 1t was stock
jobbing sensation, that might have re.
suited in the precipitation of hostilities.
But the Frenchman of 1887 is much
more wary than the Frenchman of 1870.
THEY say now that Jesse James is
still living. We doubt it. A gentle.
man of Jesse's enterprising pecuiarl.
ties could not have been inhabltlng the
"wilds of Arizona" all this time with.
out the public being made aware of /,
now and then.
THE Chinese Minister, after last
nights experience, will doubtless bt
more than ever convinced that tht
wisest policy Tor the Celestial Empir,
is to keep the outside barbarian at {
safe distance.
DIR. MCGLYNN's health is improving
and he will probably be well enough tC
90 to Rome before long and argue tn,
land question with the Pope.
PRINCE BISMARCK should have beet
at the Chinese Minister ball last night
1t would have given him some new
points on the American hog.
How about Mr. Farwell's mailel
vo,cY May not the sex in whose he
half 1t was thrown 50 gracefully accep
II as happy omen?
IT WAS anything but nice gorge q
the Chinese Minister'S ball last night.